We were up in the Chilean Andes last week, in the Atacama desert between San Pedro and the Argentine border at about 4500m. The scenery absolutely justifies that overused word ‘majestic’. In almost every direction we were looking at snow capped volcanoes under a blue sky with enormous fluffy clouds. In this image we also have flamingos on the lake, and vicunas peacefully grazing on the Altiplano.
What’s not to like??
Well for starters, I just can’t seem to get the best out of this photo. I love the detail in the clouds and on the snow, and the colours, and and . . . . So each attempt to process with DT has ended up just too cluttered.
I take on board everything people say about composition as opposed to sharpening and saturating everything, so lets see what everyone can bring out in this photo.
In the real world, the human eye looks around the scene, then the brain does image processing. So you can take in the entire scene, without realising you are mentally stitching together several different ‘takes’ across varied lighting, distance etc.
Almost impossible to do the same to a single camera image, but what I like about this shot is the natural lines in the image which guide the eye to the different areas of interest. So when I have seen enough people work on the image, I plan to take the ideas and reprocess in DT with multiple settings for these different areas of focus.
Hi @Aliks,
this image is quite impressive, I like it a lot
I removed the foreground with the first row of flamingos to focus the image more on the mountain.
(and more color and contrast )
very beautiful landscape … my dt version consists mostly of color balance rgb and color calibration adjustments - big fan of boris hajdukovic tutorial.
Unfortunaly I could not open the Raw with rawTherapee. Just gave me a blank screen.
So I download as a jpeg and did 3 edits usinf Gimp. Similar but different crops
This is the only one I didn’t do equalize local histograms on - just white balance. And if I sharpened any (it didn’t need it actually) I used sharpen gradient as it is a softer sharpening I think.
If you downloaded from here: RawTherapee you are using the old one.
You should see something like this in the top left corner (look at my screen shot): RawTherapee 5.8-3075-g5502f52f9 instead of RawTherapee 5.8. The extra string signifies a development build.